Sample Sentences for
illicit
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    You do receive illicit love letters, Count?  (source)
    illicit = improper
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    For this to succeed, Tita must agree to give up having an illicit child.  (source)
    illicit = contrary to law or accepted morality
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    Over the years Puller had seen just about every type of illicit drug there was.  (source)
    illicit = illegal
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    Lately, he'd been keeping an eye on ISIS's involvement in the illicit antiquities trade, which is why he requested a crash meeting the day after the bomb exploded in Paris.  (source)
    illicit = illegal
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    I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.  (source)
    illicitly = in violation of what is normal
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    The verb Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat used implied that it hadn't been an approved, Medical-mediated suicide but something illicit and messy.  (source)
    illicit = illegal
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    Part of me had supposed that she only chose to seek because she illicitly craved the violence.†  (source)
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    This had happened the previous Saturday night near Lake Chatulla, in an area of a state park where illicit behavior was known to be common.  (source)
    illicit = illegal or improper
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    The only reason he had pocketed a bottle of this amateurish drink was that it was available for purchase in little flasks at the Berghof, intended for guests going on excursions, but certainly never for anyone illicitly wandering off and getting lost in the snow and frost of the mountains and then waiting for night to fall.†  (source)
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    It ought to have felt exhilarating, but the girl's eyes had teared up and her face was drooping, and what satisfaction Mariam found from this outburst felt meager, somehow illicit.  (source)
    illicit = improper
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    At night, after ten P.M. lights out, the halls were quiet, haunted by the occasional woman in her muu-muu heading to the bathroom or the mail drop box, navigating by the distant light from a common room where someone was sitting, perhaps illicitly watching after-hours TV.†  (source)
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    There was a police car in the high-school parking lot—on the lookout for vandals, I suppose, or else to prevent the high-school students from using the parking lot and the athletic fields for illicit purposes at night.  (source)
    illicit = illegal or improper
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    Often the factories produce an overrun of prototypes and sell them illicitly.†  (source)
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